History A-Level
Communal and state violence
What Communal and state violence means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Communal and state violence
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Clashes between Inkatha and UDF-aligned youth, distinguished from police shootings, detentions without trial and emergency regulations.
Topics that use Communal and state violence
- Paper 2, Option 2F.2: South Africa, 1948–94: from apartheid state to ‘rainbow nation’ - 4 The end of apartheid and the creation of the ‘rainbow nation’, 1984–94 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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